Food Safety Quality Auditor Nightshift

Pilgrim's Europe; Sleaford; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading food production company in the UK is looking for a Food Safety Quality Auditor (Nights) to ensure compliance with safety and quality standards. Key responsibilities include maintaining quality systems, conducting inspections, and driving hygiene standards. Candidates should have Food Safety and HACCP certifications, along with strong problem-solving and communication skills. The role offers a competitive salary and various benefits.

Benefits

Competitive Salary

Competitive Holiday Entitlement

Pension Contribution

Family Friendly Policies

Learning and Development Opportunities

Life Assurance

Qualifications

• Problem solving skills essential.
• Excellent communication skills with ability to adapt message to audience.
• Detail-oriented with excellent observation skills.
• Ability to multi-task and prioritise tasks with strict deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and develop quality systems for product integrity.
• Ensure compliance to all food handling requirements.
• Monitor and audit critical control points.
• Conduct intake inspections and audits.

Skills

Problem solving skills

Excellent communication skills

Detail-oriented

Ability to multi-task

Education

Food Safety L2 or equivalent

HACCP L2

Job description

Food Safety Quality Auditor (Nights)

Location: Ruskington

Reports to: Food Safety & Quality Supervisor

We are currently recruiting for a Food Safety Quality Auditor (Nights) to ensure that all products meet integrity, safety and legality and specification requirements.

Responsibilities:

• Maintaining and developing quality systems to ensure safe, legal product integrity and authenticity.
• To ensure all operational standards in quality and food hygiene are monitored and maintained.
• To ensure compliance to all food handling quality and technical requirements and that this information is accurately recorded.
• Monitoring and auditing of CCPs.
• Intake inspection of raw materials, ingredients and packaging and analysis to ensure compliance.
• Monitoring in-house ingredient labelling.
• Collating traceability records.
• Fabric, glass & brittle material audits.
• GMP audits.
• Driving high hygiene and GMP standards across the factory.
• Driving quality & food safety culture.
• Assist in audits of operation, factory and surrounds.
• Control of non-conformance. Ensuring routine samples are collected and submitted for testing as required.
• Material assessment and concession management.
• Traceability audits, hygiene audits and swabbing, highlight areas of non-conformity.
• Monitoring of cleaning chemical concentration.
• Driving production to be audit ready.
• Product inspections and temperature checks.
• Ownership of the quality department's paperwork and records.
• Maintaining a working knowledge of all products the site produces and the procedures that surround that production and the paperwork that relates to them.
• Ensuring product safety and quality meets specifications and procedures.
• Perform all aspects of online checks of product, packaging, labelling and procedure, ensuring compliance with specification.
• Carry out product checks against specification.
• Carry out area temperature checks, scale checks and probe calibrations.
• Carry out gas analysis on packaging and completing relevant paperwork.
• System monitoring and verification such as: room temperature, chemical titrations, canteen facilities.
• Organoleptic panels and product assessment (texture analysis).
• Internal audits.

Essential Criteria:

• Problem solving skills.
• Excellent communication skills with ability to adapt message to audience.
• Detail-oriented with excellent observation skills.
• Ability to multi-task and prioritise tasks with strict deadlines.
• Food Safety L2 or equivalent.
• HACCP L2.
• HR/HC experience (depending on site).
• Meat/Carcass knowledge (depending on site).

Desirable Criteria:

• Experience in manufacturing specific factory products.
• Internal auditing.
• Food Safety L3 or equivalent.
• Microbiology.

The company

Pilgrim's Europe produces some of the best-known and most iconic brands in the UK and Ireland, including Fridge Raiders, Rollover, Denny, Richmond, Oakhouse and Moy Park, alongside a diverse range of industry-leading own-label products in categories including fresh pork, lamb and chicken, working with all the major retailers and food service outlets.

Our portfolio extends to authentic chilled and frozen ready meals, snacking ranges, added value and food service products.

Across Pilgrim's Europe we combine 20,000 of the best people in the industry, united by a shared set of core values and a passion for producing the highest quality, most delicious and innovative food, which is enjoyed by millions of people in the UK, Ireland and Europe every day. Our Pilgrim's Europe team are based in our Pilgrim's UK, Moy Park, Pilgrim's Food Masters and Pilgrim's Shared Services businesses.

What we'll bring to the table

• Competitive Salary
• Competitive Holiday Entitlement
• Pension Contribution
• Family Friendly Policies
• Learning and Development Opportunities
• Life Assurance

Our values

• Determination
• Simplicity
• Availability
• Humility
• Discipline
• Sincerity
• Ownership